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Amaravati: The Telugu Desam Party Members of Parliament refusing to sign the memorandum submitted to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking withdrawal of the decision to privatise Visakhapatnamj steel plant, which came as a shock to the Opposition parties which were fighting the issue for over a year. The YSR Congress Party Rajya Sabha member […]
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Visakhapatnam: Huge protests on Saturday, followed by Jail Bharo programme are planned to mark one-year of agitation against the privatisation of Visakhapatnam Steel plant on Sunday.Thousands of people are expected to take part in the two-day intensive agitation and the struggle would continue till the Central Government withdraws its decision of a strategic sale of […]
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Visakhapatnam: Former Energy Secretary EAS Sarma has urged the Andhra Pradesh government to question the Centre’s privatisation policy in general and privatisation of Visakhapatnam steel plant in particular. In a letter addressed to Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy here on Monday, he noted that despite the AP government writing to the Centre to stop privatisation […]
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Visakhapatnam: Former Union Secretary EAS Sarma has urged the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) and the Steel Ministry to review the proposal of privatisation of RINL-Visakhapatnam steel plant as it was neither legal nor in public interest. In a letter addressed to Secretary of DIPAM T.K. Pandey and Secretary-Union Ministry of steel […]
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Visakhapatnam: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi , who has already expressed solidarity with the steel workers’ agitation against privatisation of Visakhapatnam steel plant, would visit Andhra Pradesh soon, according to Congress Working Committee special invitee and former Union Minister Chinta Mohan. Talking to reporters at the Press Club here on Wednesday, he observed that the socialist […]
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Employees and workers of Steel plant on Monday began a two-day protest demonstration at Jantar Mantar opposing the privatisation of the plant.
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In an affidavit filed in the Andhra Pradesh HC, the Centre stated that privatisation of the plant would not be stopped
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The protestors declared that they will not allow privatisation of the plant which was achieved with the sacrifice of many lives
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Minister Avanti Srinivasa Rao said it was imprudent to privatise national wealth and the party would bring pressure on the Centre in the Parliament to drop the move
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Admonishing the PM to take back his privatization plans, he reminded that many farmers sacrificed their land for the steel plant.
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Visakhapatnam: Workers at the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant –Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd. (RINL) went on a daylong strike on Tuesday, demanding dropping the move to privatise the plant and implementation of wage revision. As many as 14 trade unions took part in the strike. The workers are also demanding job for the family of workers who […]
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YSRCP victory in Tirupati Lok Sabha by-election was certain and the TDP and the BJP were vying for only the second place, said Minister Kurasala Kannababu
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After searching for a while, police took him into custody in the plant premises on Saturday morning, it is learnt
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Govt had no business to sell the steel plant which is worth Rs 62,000 cr and already paid several thousands of cr towards taxes and in the form of dividend to the Centre, for a mere Rs. 3200 cr, said AITUC general secretary Amarjit Kaur
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AITUC national leader Tapan Sen felt only a public struggle would stop privatisation and warned that people would not keep quiet if national wealth is sold away
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"TRS government gave 43 per cent fitment, besides initiating many welfare programmes. How can BJP leaders label our government as anti-employee?" questioned Rama Rao
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Trade union leaders Ch. Narasinga Rao, D. Adinarayana and Mantri Rajasekhar demanded revoking the approval of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) for 100 per cent strategic sale of RINL.
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"Even while the agitation to save Vizag steel plant is intensified, the minister's remarks tend to provoke Telugu people," CPM Visakhapatnam district secretary K Lokanadham said
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CPI (Maoist) Telangana State Committee spokesperson Jagan alleged that the Modi govt was privatising profitable public sector companies to capitalist and corporate forces
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The YSRCP-led state government has also expressed solidarity with the bandh and announced that RTC buses will not run today till 1 pm.
